A new constitution

The need for a new Constitution emerged quickly after the December 1989 events. On June 11, 1990, a Constitutional Commission made up 23 members of the parliament and five professors, led by law professor Antonie Iorgovan, was appointed to work on the project of the new Constitution.

Iorgovan, sometimes referred to as “the father of the Constitution” was the only MP elected outside of any party list in the Romanian Parliament after 1990. He became an independent senator representing Caraș-Severin in May, 1990, and was part of the parliamentary group of the National Liberal Party.

The new Constitution was inspired from the French one of 1958.